Friday, October 16, 2015

Seven Quick Takes of Chatting and Catching Up

Let's be random and rambling today, shall we?

1. My drafts folder is empty. I wrote and scheduled about two months' worth of posts before I had Mary Jane. Then, since she was born, I've been writing about one new post per week, to mix in here and there, and that's gotten us here, to twelve weeks. And now . . . I've got four great ideas for posts and nine that would be fine and a baby who is completely unputdownable (we're going to pretend that's a word) so who knows if they'll get written.

But really, it's hard to be TOO bad at her, I mean . . . behold the chub:

So, bear with me? Many kind and generous authors and artists have shared their work with me in the hopes that I will share it with you. So, if, IF, I can get them written up, I have a pretty great backlog of giveaways that I might just try to do all next week.

2. So, if I haven't been writing blog posts, what have I been doing?

There's been bouncing up and down with a baby in an Ergo while doing schoolwork with the kids.

There's been bouncing up and down with a baby in an Ergo while augering a toilet.

And there's been quite a lot of bouncing up and down with a baby in an Ergo while watching Netflix.

I watched Gotham, which I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. A superhero show on Fox starring the wrong side of the tracks kid from The OC doesn't sound super promising. But I do like superhero shows, so I figured I'd try it. And . . . the writing is really smart, the acting is really good, the subtle reveal of all the bad guys is really cool, the hero is heroic, the kid can act, basically, I liked it a lot.

p.s. Neither show is Catholic. Gotham features cohabitation and a same sex relationship. Also lots of thieving and murdering. iZombie has some innuendo jokes. But neither has nudity, and both are much less violent and gory than Daredevil or The Walking Dead.

3. The other thing I've been done while bouncing up and down with a baby in an Ergo learn to cross stitch. I can kind of do it between bounces.

Betty has been learning too, and we've really loved it. Nancy from Do Small Things sent us a couple of her new patterns to try out. For me cross stitch is this weird combination of mystery because you can't see what you're doing until it's almost done, and frustration because counting is HARD and I have done every stitch about three times, and gratification because it comes together SO quickly. And they are SO STINKIN' CUTE!

If you’d like this entire bundle of 40 Catholic Saints in Cross Stitch for your family you can get it HERE. She is selling it for $3 through the end of the month, so get it now!

4. The house. You guys, the house.

It is not ours. Everything was finally settled last Friday, and all we had to do was sign all the paperwork. Then on Wednesday, a new crazy unexpected thing happened, crazier even than all the crazy unexpected things that have already happened. And now it's looking a lot less likely that we'll end up with it.

Which is fine. No one deserves to live in a hundred year old tumbledown mansion, least of all me. But it really looked like I might get to anyway. And I gotta say, I'm going to be very sad if it all falls apart like this.

Please say a quick prayer for us, if you would, that we would get the house . . . or be okay with not getting the house.

5. The big boys went camping with the Boy Scouts last weekend in the sequoias, which sounds like it was pretty amazing. It's a good group of fellas.

Gus was sad to not be old enough to go along. But glad that with his older brothers gone he got to do the good stuff like carry the crucifix in the procession and hold the giant book with his face.

6. Those of us in the family without real jobs or real school to worry about are down in San Diego for a couple of days to take advantage of the kids free in October promotion at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

It's a work in progress, more will be added, but I wanted to share it with you now!

I also started an Ingagram account for the shop. I'll be sharing printables available from the shop, plus saint of the day quotes over there. So follow along if that's your cup of tea.

Each digital download in stock in the shop is only $5. Custom images are $10 through the end on the month. They'll be $15 in November.

To celebrate the shop's opening, and by popular demand in the comments of Tuesday's post, I give you (absolutely free), this . . .

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I'm glad to hear your review of Gotham-I recently heard about it, so I've been curious to learn more! I've now put it on my list of "When Netflix offers me free trials, these are the shows I will binge watch." :) I'm so sorry to hear that you've been going through so much crazy with the house stuff, that's really rough! Hopefully, God will bring y'all peace in whatever happens.

Your church! Your church is beautiful! Haha, that picture of Gus with the missal in his face is great! I love it when little boys serve. Once, I was at Mass, and there was this tiny boy who must have been fresh out of second grade in a tiny little cassock, and it was the cutest thing ever. When he put the missal on the altar, he had to stand on his tip-toes, and even then it was hard for him to reach! Ooh, that San Diego Safari park looks so awesome! I

I'm so sorry about the house :( I will be praying lots! There was one time we were technically illegal homeless squatters in our 'new' not-ours house because our closing date took so long....so sometimes it comes through in the end despite craziness!

I love the pics of the kids' reactions to the birds, you've got the whole range from Betty who looks thrilled to Lulu who looks utterly terrified, haha! Frankie as always looks very skeptical :)

I'm impressed you had time to start an etsy shop! I'm up to my eyeballs in baby care and teaching kids lately. LOVE the printable with the dunce cap, I am seriously printing that out and putting it up in our homeschool room. Hopefully my tutoring students appreciate my sense of humor too, haha!

Hooray!! Thanks for the printable. Seriously - this quote will be used all. the. time. around my house.

And prayers for your house situation. That is very, very frustrating. You haven't been praying for the virtue of patience lately, have you? That's one of those prayers I'm often afraid to pray, because then it seems like something like this happens :)

That picture of Lulu encapsulates my feelings about the lorikeet encounter at the SD Zoo from her age to this day, at the ripe old age of 25. I LOVE the San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal Park, but the flapping, oh the flapping...

Oh, you're in the "time of bouncing." I know how that goes! But oh what a sweet little thing to bounce! I'm struck too by how much your Betty reminds me of my Audrey. If she's anything like my girl, she's (as we say) "in management." She always knows what all other little people (and animals) should be doing.

And Im sorry about the house drama. Been there too. We actually got all the way to the inspection before signing the final papers on a beautiful old home....and then found out part of it was about to tumble to the ground if a strong wind came along. It broke my heart.....but then we were given an opportunity and a chance at a house even better that all fell into place. hang in there. There's a plan. There's gotta be....right?

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